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From: rxcob@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Owen Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.004302.14658@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 21 Apr 91 00:43:02 GMT
References: <EDWONG.91Apr18212121@bucsf.bu.edu>
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
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edwong@bucsf.bu.edu (Edward Wong) writes:

>Has anyone tried out this DOS yet?  I heard it is released.

I have had a cut down Beta release for a few weeks which had only the 
COMMAND.COM interpreter and DOSSHELL. Once (if) we get the full Beta release I
will post a report to the net if anyone is interested, but briefly the main
things I have noticed are:

1. The internal commands within the command interpreter such as dir and copy
   now have a /? parameter to display usage instructions.

2. COMMAND.COM is approximately 43Kb in size vs 25-26Kb for v3.3. Im not
   sure what the size of the memory resident portion is yet.

3. The DOS Shell is now graphics based and looks very similiar to Windows 3. 

I have not heard that it has been officially released yet. Anyone know???

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| Owen Baker                                                                 |
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